Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry almost from scratch and amassed a personal fortune estimated at more than $500 million, is attracting plenty of attention these days -- much of it in the form of official probes. For 18 months, a federal grand jury in Manhattan has been investigating Milken and other executives of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, reportedly on charges that they helped Ivan Boesky carry out his insider-trading schemes. Milken and his employer have denied any such wrongdoing...
...highest civilization," wrote Emerson, "the book is still the highest delight." Well, not for Michael Milken, particularly since he is the book's subject. The controversial junk-bond financier reportedly offered to pay Writer Connie Bruck to give up work on her book about him and his investment firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. "I do not want it to be done. Why don't we pay you for all the copies you would have sold -- if you had written it," Milken suggested to Bruck after she began working on the project in 1986, according to an extract of the manuscript obtained...
...Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1. Yet voters would just as soon send a member of the G.O.P. to the statehouse or the White House. "I have voted for J.F.K. and for Barry Goldwater," says Paul Hinkle, a purchasing agent at the Drexel Heritage furniture-manufactu ring plant. "I am a registered Democrat, and I intend to vote, but this is the weakest field I have seen in 35 years...
...Drexel University...
...Pennsylvania 166 8. Yale University 161 9. Columbia Univ. 137 10. James Madison 116 11. Cornell Univ. 107 12. LaSalle Univ. 85 13. Richmond 82 14. Dartmouth 71 15. Lehigh Univ. 40 16. Delaware 39 17. Syracuse Univ. 30 18. St. Bonaventure 17 19. Fordham 14 20. Drexel Univ. 13 21. Colgate Univ. 11 22. Wm. and Mary 9 23. Maryland-Balt. 7 24. Rhode Island 5 25. Bucknell...